Just as this issue was being locked up and prepared for print, we received what we believe is our first ever report on a big-game hunt in Japan. We are indebted to subscriber Mario Nobili for providing a glimpse of what may be the first sika deer taken by a nonresident hunter in Japan in decades.

Here are some of the details as we have them so far:

The hunts are being arranged by an American expat named Eric Rose (oregoneric@hotmail.com) who lives in the town of Kushiro on the eastern coast of the northern island of Hokkaido......